To get that azalea to grow in your garden, you have to make the right-sized hole, bring the soil up to the correct level and find the perfect location to plant it.

Camellias, azaleas and a lot of our other evergreen shrubs can get strange yellow discoloration on the leaves. Don't worry, that just means the leaves are getting ready to fall.

Japanese beetles are coming up out of the ground this time of year and they are getting on every plant in the area that they like and devouring the foliage.

Those of us who garden are not comfortable using the municipal drinking water supply for watering our plants so using collected rain water makes a lot of sense.

The clay soils in this area get compacted fairly easily as traffic increases across the lawn in the summer. To let the air, water and nutrients reach the roots of our grass; we need to aerate the soil.

The sansevieria, or mother-in-law’s tongue, is a houseplant that does an efficient job of cleaning up the air in our homes. The plant should be repotted about every third year.